Woodland Hills Church
Woodland Hills Church Sermons Get the most recent sermon audio and video from Woodland Hills Church. Located in St. Paul, MN, our goal as a church is to tear down walls between social classes, genders, races, and most of all, between people and Jesus Christ. ...
Woodland Hills Church Sermons Get the most recent sermon audio and video from Woodland Hills Church. Located in St. Paul, MN, our goal as a church is to tear down walls between social classes, genders, races, and most of all, between people and Jesus Christ. Many other resources (including sermon study guides, presentation slides and our entire sermon archive dating back to 1992) are available for free on our web site. Most sermons are by our Senior Pastor, Greg Boyd.
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Rappers, Nuns, and Disciples
Sandra Unger began this sermon with a visualization exercise. We ...
Sandra Unger began this sermon with a visualization exercise. We were asked to picture in our minds the following people: a mailman, nun, rapper, basketball player, pilot, Christian and finally a disciple of Jesus. For many people, it was easy to conjure up a picture of the first five but the last two posed a problem. Following Jesus is actually remarkably simple. Submit your entire life to Christ and he will give you a new one. It's not difficult to know what the right thing to do is. But it is often very difficult to jump into the unknown territory that comes along with doing the right thing.
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The Sweet Aroma of Worship
Greg began by reading Luke 1:8-10. In previous messages we ...
Greg began by reading Luke 1:8-10. In previous messages we heard about how the Old Testament teachings are often a shadow of what is to come in the New Testament. Specifically, the temple of the Old Testament foreshadows what the Christian and the Christian church should be today. The primary functions of the temple were sacrifice, prayer, and worship.
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Pray Until Something Happens
Rev. Brenda's message today was entitled: Operation Push: Pray Until ...
Rev. Brenda's message today was entitled: Operation Push: Pray Until Something Happens, and was based on John 5:1-19. As stated in verse 19, "the Son can do nothing on his own, but only what he sees the Father doing." Jesus walked with his spiritual eyes open in order to see what the Father was doing. He knew he had to stop and say what he could see. That is why Jesus was accurate in prayer. He only said what he could see. He only did what he could see God was doing.
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Ministers Behind the Ministry
This week we got a glimpse at the real Woodland ...
This week we got a glimpse at the real Woodland Hills Church! The Body of Christ is made up of all the followers of Christ, not just the church staff. A healthy body makes efficient use of all its parts. The video we saw showed much more of our actual church body than we usually get to see. Greg referred us to two main texts to support this idea that church is about the people, not the building or just the leadership.
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Smelling Good
This week's message on "Smelling Good to God" was drawn ...
This week's message on "Smelling Good to God" was drawn from Luke 1:8-10. Greg used this text as an opportunity to show how the Old Testament temple structure and worship offer insights into the language and imagery of the New Testament. A significant part of Greg's message centered on the new reality of us, both collectively and individually being the temple of God (1 Cor. 3:16, 6:19). Collectively, as the community of faith, we are the Body of Christ, and the temple of God. The Holy Spirit dwells within us. So, what then does this mean? Since we are all now priests of God, we also share the responsibilities of priests. If we feel that our lives are not very dynamic and exciting in terms of our Christian walk, we may want to accept this challenge! God wants all of our lives. As we yield more and more to God, we will experience the peace that comes from drawing on the true source of Life.
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The Beloved Community
The church needs to be positioned as an agent of ...
The church needs to be positioned as an agent of God's love in the world. People decide which church to attend based on a lot of things (location, denomination, who's preaching, etc.), but they stay in a church because there is love. What does this love look like? Efrem offered us four elements of what it means to be 'the beloved community' and a force of love in the world. To illustrate the kind of life being advocated, he used a humorous but poignant comparison between Batman/Batgirl and Superman/Wonder Woman. Efrem's challenge was to understand that we were born to live as children of God. We are intended for great things in this world and beyond.
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But You Promised
Greg began with Luke 1:5-7. The focus was on Elizabeth ...
Greg began with Luke 1:5-7. The focus was on Elizabeth and Zachariah, both of whom where obedient to 'the Lord's commands and decrees.' The next sentence in the text starts with the word 'but' and indicates something unexpected and in this case disappointing for Elizabeth and Zachariah. 'But they were childless:' and ':both well advanced in years' which to first century Jewish ears would have sounded like a curse. Greg used this passage to raise a few questions: What do we do when we feel that God has not honored a promise? What do we do when it looks like God has let us down? How do we deal with disappointment with God?
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Jesus for Thinking People, Part 3
In the last two weeks Greg spent time showing the ...
In the last two weeks Greg spent time showing the flaws in the 'conspiracy theory' and the 'legendary theory.' This week he addressed another theory that secular scholars offer to answer the question: 'What happened to produce the Gospel accounts?' The resurrection could have been a hallucination. Greg had five responses to counter this theory.
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Jesus for Thinking People, Part 2
In this message, Greg explains the 'Legendary Theory.' This theory ...
In this message, Greg explains the 'Legendary Theory.' This theory maintains that though the authors of Luke weren't consciously lying and trying to deceive people (they genuinely believed what they where saying), they were just wrong about essential things like Jesus' being both the messiah and God! They were not trying to deceive, but they themselves were deceived, according to the Legendary Theory.
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Jesus for Thinking People, Part 1
Greg introduced the Book of Luke by first providing some ...
Greg introduced the Book of Luke by first providing some context for the Gospel. Then he launched into a big question that occurs to many who read the Bible in general: 'Is this true?' In other words, is the Gospel about Jesus that Luke researched and presents true? And to get at this he broke it down as follows: either it is true or it is false. If it is false, then it can be false in one of two ways: intentionally false (Conspiracy Theory) or unintentionally false (Legendary Theory). This week's message focused on showing how irrational the Conspiracy Theory is.
